The revolutions spreading across the Arab world invite a compelling question: If Saddam Hussein "had been in power now, would he too be brought down?" The nonviolent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt succeeded because the military "refused to protect the regimes by cracking down on their own countrymen," says Bobby Ghosh, TIME's former Baghdad bureau chief. The armed forces under Hussein would have had no such compunction, Ghosh writes. Here, an excerpt:
"Saddam, on the other hand, could always count on two armed groups whose ONLY reason for being was their loyalty to him: the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq's current government cannot be sued for the actions of Saddam Hussein's regime, the Supreme Court said Monday as it threw out lawsuits filed by Americans who were held by the government of the now-deceased dictator.Foreign nations usually are immune from lawsuits in U.S. courts, but federal law strips that protection from countries that support terrorism. Under Saddam, Iraq was considered a state sponsor of terrorism.But the Iraqi government says the U.S.-led invasion that deposed Saddam and a federal law enacted in 2003 restored Iraq's immunity to lawsuits in ...

Chippewa Falls (WQOW) - The job for dozens of local soldiers in Iraq is to guard a facility that was once known for holding Saddam Hussein.The 829th Engineer Company out of Chippewa Falls is involved in a security mission at Camp Cropper. That's a detention facility near Baghdad where Saddam Hussein was held before he was put to death.Soldiers from the 829th will spend the next eight months guarding and escorting detainees at the facility. They arrived in May and have been working 12-hour shifts. They're expected to return to Wisconsin in January.The 829th is part of the state's largest ...